Politicians get inventive with Ice Bucket Challenge

The time has come for the U.S. Senate to put up or shut up, now that Sen. Lisa Murkowski has challenged her 99 colleagues to at least dump a bucket of ice water on their heads for charity.

The Republican from Alaska took the Ice Bucket Challenge for ALS to a new level when she jumped into a swimming pool — where the water was a brisk 30-degrees. Now, Murkowski’s fellow senators have 24 hours to meet her challenge or donate money to raise awareness of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), which is more commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease.